How to become popular? Ignore popularity.

Almost everyday, I look up excitedly on the popularity report of this blog. It seems like I can’t wait my blog to see there in the top popular blog list. It takes me five minutes each day to relieve my thirst on that report. Sometimes, I find myself stuck in front of my computer starring at my popularity report. And the worst happens when I get disappointed with my rankings. What an impatient blogger, isn’t it? But after those disappointments, I realized I was wasting my time in front of that report. I asked myself, what if I only check my popularity once every month? How about once every three months? If I consume 5 minutes per day, then I can save 145 minutes or almost 2 and a half hour a month. This is already enough to write and publish 1 to 2 good articles that will increase my popularity. Read more

The Most Important Key to Become a Successful Blogger

Blogging is running and maintaining a blog (web log) by sharing and publishing information through texts, art (artlog), photos (photoblog), sketches (sketchlog) audios (podcasting), music (MP3 blog) or videos (vlog). According to Technorati, it has already indexed 112.8 millions of blogs in their database as of June 2008. That’s pretty huge enough! Just imagine where your blog is ranked among those numbers. People blog because of many reasons – one primary reason is to earn money (i.e., through adsense, affiliate marketing, etc.). Another thing that bloggers invest time and effort is to gain fame and recognition. Some people simply want to express their thoughts and inner insights. But whatever the reason is, bloggers dream of one thing – to become a successful blogger in their own goals. Read more